VoltAero has selected Rochefort Airport in the Charente-Maritime department of France’s Nouvelle-Aquitaine region to produce its family of Cassio hybrid-electric aircraft on a new purpose-built final assembly line. This marks another important milestone in VoltAero’s development plan for its four-to-ten-seat product line of Cassio airplanes, placing the production facility at a strategic location in southwest France known for its dynamic economy and established presence of industry – including the aviation sector.
VoltAero’s final selection of Rochefort – Charente-Maritime Airport was announced at the conclusion of a week-long French tour with its Cassio 1 hybrid-electric demonstrator aircraft, which wrapped up the 11-city, 3,000-kilometer itinerary at Rochefort. Cassio 1 serves as the testbed to validate VoltAero’s proprietary hybrid-electric power module that will be used in the production Cassio aircraft.
